Projection

I honestly would prefer you'd leave them in the ground. Or give them to me in a pot or something.

Yeah, I know you're trying to be nice. It is nice. But I don't think you get it.

This is how it always goes with you. These grand gestures. Things you think I want. Things you think I should want. But I don't. You never asked. You just assumed.

Lots of women like these things, sure.

But I'm not lots of women.

I'm me.

I'm not trying to be ungrateful. I know it's expensive. But expensive treats and material things were never what I wanted from you. I tried to tell you that. You gave me more of what I didn't need and none of what I did.

Just stop. Please don't send me flowers.

I'm not the girl for you.